No one thought it could be done, but I’m still here. This is the second month for YoRapper.com and I want to thank all of you for making this site exceed my expectations for the month of September. YoRapper is getting hits from all around the world and it is an incredible feeling to know that I am providing some kind of entertainment value for all of you out there. So thank you.

This month, I will do my best to break news before anyone else, provide better articles and even more album reviews that will make the hardest rappers cry (no homo). So please check back often as this site is updated hourly. I don’t claim to provide coverage on all rappers, just the really good ones. So sit back and relax and watch YoRapper take over this web shit in true American Gangster style. You’ve seen Scarface right? Well this is the internet version, hopefully a bunch of goons from XXL mag don’t come to gun me down. YN seems really scary from his blog post. Rigidity. Come and Get Me.

haha this is jokes, but this is the worst impression of Terrence and Roxi from 106&Park ever, I don’t think these dudes have even seen the show. Kanye kills it.

Kanye performing on SNL. Yeezy forgets his verse and just starts freestylen’. Nice recovery. *Cough, cough* Fifty this is what you do when you forget your verse.

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Jay-Z likes to think he’s the GOAT (Greatest of All Time). But what about Hov’s less than Godly moments on the mic. Check the breakdown of the worst Jay-Z songs of all time. Feel free to add your own. Someone should make a mixtape of this.

12. Girl’s Best Friend [Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter(1999)]

Jay had a good metaphor going, but the Swizzy’s beat is all over the place and hook is annoying. Plus the video hurts my eyes.

11. Sunshine [In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 (1997)]

Everyone knows this as Jay’s worst song, but compared to the following songs this ain’t that bad, though this video has to be the gayest video of all time, I mean Jay’s wearing a lime green suit dancing inside a rubik’s cube.

10. Hollywood [Kingdom Come]

This is like the Hollywood version of 03 Bonnie & Clyde only less Hollywood.

9. Do U Wanna Ride [Kingdom Come]

The most forgettable Jigga song ever. You get John Legend on a hook and the best thing you can think of him to sing is “do you wanna ride…with me”? Brilliant.

8. Minority Report [Kingdom Come]

The most blatant attempt at seeming like Jay’s got a heart. Also his flow on this has to be the gayest flow of all time. Beat was good and hook is there, just Jay didn’t deliver.

7. Dig a Hole [Kingdom Come]

Raps ok, but beat is garbage.

6. Trouble [Kingdom Come]

Again raps ok, but this beat is trash and to think Dre produced this? WTF.

5.What They Gonna Do [The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse]

Timbaland on the beat and Sean Paul on the hook. Sounds good on paper. In reality, it produced one of the most “please play me in the club” songs ever.

4. 03 Bonnie & Clyde [The Blueprint²: The Gift & the Curse]

We don’t want to hear Jay-Z in love. And we don’t want to hear it over a classic Tupac riff.

3. Anything [Kingdom Come]

This is the “Anything” featuring Usher and Pharrell, not the other “Anything” that was on Beanie’s album for no reason, that one was good, this is garbageman music. A blatant attempt on Jay to get play in the strip club.

2. Justify My Thug [The Black Album]

This song is by far the gayest beat Jay has ever spit too, WTF were you thinking dog? You could have had a classic with The Black Album. And that whole one “o’clock two o’clock” rah rah sounds like Ralphie.

1. I Know What Girls Like [In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 (1997)]

This is perhaps the worst song of all time, not just in Jay’s stash. I so can picture Puffy (that’s what he was called back then) saying “this is gonna be the hot shit, take that, take that”.

These albums are albums that you must listen to in order for you to have a conversation with me. Honorable mention to T.I.’s Urban Legend and Hov’s Blueprint. Ladies get your listen on.

10. Noreaga -N.O.R.E.

This was just a fun album that had some of the best production of the new era ever. It also helped propel The Neptunes into the cool nerds they are today.

9. 50 Cent - Get Rich Or Die Tryin

An album that culminates everything before it with the simple phrase “GO GO GO SHAWTY..”

8. Capone-N-Noreaga - The War Report

This is the last classic album from New York from the Golden Era, CNN was on some IRAQ shit back then. I doubt they would be as pro-Islamic as they once were today.

7. Outkast - ATLiens

This is before Outkast went too left field for my taste.

6. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

The most colorful album ever. Remember the purple tape? The production on here coupled the sampling age with a more cinematic experience. Not to mention everyone became Italian mobsters after this. I know it sounds corny, it was the mid-90s. Nas’s guest appearance here is insane.

5. Method Man - Tical

This is when Meth wasn’t Hollywood and his flow was in another world, plus he made no damn sense, which was great.

4. Tupac - All Eyez on Me

This album is pretty much the blueprint for all the good artist from the South. This is album was the beginning of Pac’s end as he had just come out of jail and was signed to Death Row and the rest, well you know the rest.

3. Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
The album that pretty much changed the world, but no one cared until Volume 2 came out.

2. Nas - It Was Written

The intro on this album is enough to call this classic as this album introduced the new age of hip hop away from the “break beats” and “dusty samples” of Illmatic.

1. Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die: The Remaster

Greatest rap album of all time. This album is the blueprint of everything. This was also the prologue to the “shiny suit” era.

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I don’t assume most of you buy books or even read books for that matter, but there’s this little store called Chapters. The cool thing about Chapters is that they actually let you read or browse through the books while in the store, it’s a lot like your public library just doesn’t smell like an immigration holding cell (I’m allowed to say that as I am an immigrant).

I mostly go there to read the new XXL or whatever up and coming urban magazine that will be gone in five months has to say, but occasionally I venture into the business section and browse around. I am always astounded by the amount of people actually reading books cover to cover as I walk around. From a customer service perspective this is a great strategy as I always hated it when I went into the local corner store as a kid to read the new Source (does anyone read that anymore?) and the owner would tell me to get lost. Actually he would want me to buy based on the cover alone. Wow I guess he never heard the ol’ saying don’t judge a book by its….I digress.

Much like what goes on in Chapters, is what is happing to the music industry and in particularly hip hop music as it is the music of the young more internet savvy generation. Fans are “trying before they buy” like never before. We will no longer buy an album based on it’s cover -as in based on it’s first radio single. In the old days, say pre-2000, we would be hoodwinked by buying an album based of one good song, now a days your whole album better have hits or else that shit is getting bootlegged and even still that shit is getting bootlegged. What this creates is better more consistent artist, because in order for an artist to be successful they are going to have to come with the hits rather then based of their brand recognition alone (see 50 cent losing in sales to Kanye West). Ultimately all businesses should adopt the Chapters business model if they are to succeed in 2007 and beyond.

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Now this is some good hiphop.

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Growing up on rap music has taught me many things. How to dress, how to dance, how to speak different regional dialects, but most of all this music has taught me how to believe in myself. You see when you grow up in a poor neighborhood with poor parents it is very difficult to believe in yourself. You come to accept the way things are and just assume that fate has put you into a position in which you are condemned forever. The only people that I saw growing up doing good were the dope boys in flashy cars with big smiles on their faces and the white people I saw on television. That was when I first noticed the gap between the “haves” and “have nots”. Then one day, I turned on the tv and saw rich black people. No, not Oprah.

Will Smith. He was on this little show called “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and my entire world changed. Here was a poor black kid taken out of his environment and put into the rich predominately white world of Bel-Air. It was eye opening for me that we could not only survive but thrive in a whole other world. The whole shows premise is what Hip Hop is about and why so many people regardless of race tuned into the Fresh Prince because it gave us a look into the rich white world through a character we could relate to.

I was always into rap music even as a very small kid I would dance to MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice, but never actually listened to the lyrics until one day I saw this music video by this fat black guy named Notorious B.I.G. called “Juicy”. I’m sure all of you reading this know the song word for word, why because it preached upliftment, was heart felt and had a hot beat, not to mention biggie’s easy to listen to flow. How many of you know the actual verses from “Ay Bay Bay”? That’s what I thought.

In any genre, the music that really sells is the music that connects with the audience, not the music that only makes them dance, otherwise techno music would be the number one seller. These two moments are just two of the many moments in hip hop that have shaped me into a successful person, where my parents failed, hip hop succeeded. What’s your story?

Check this clip out from BET’s Hip Hop Vs. America segment. Nelly and T.I. represent right. I really think some old folks don’t understand hip hop, the hip hop generation is the smartest generation ever. Hip hop is the only music that teaches its listeners. Do you really think listening to Jay-Z will make you sell drugs? No, if you are from that environment you may, but listening to any of the successful rappers has inspired myself and others like me to better ourselves. I don’t think I would have become such a business minded person had I grown up listening to dance, rock or country music. No, hip hop breads hustlers.

Hip hop listeners have had their “back to the wall” and know what its like to “struggle”, granted everyone’s struggle may not be the same, but some how some way we all are inspired by this rap music. I think a lot of parents are just not raising their children properly and are not teaching them to be business minded, for the simple fact they themselves are not business minded. The majority of people have ingrained in themselves with the “worker” mentality. They have conditioned themselves that they only way to survive is to have a stable job and go to school. When the majority of extremely successful people quit their day job and dropped out of school to pursue their passion.

Following your passion, regardless of what it is, is what hip hop teaches. You dumb parents fail to realize this and instill in your children the “slave” mentality that only teaches to “survive” rather than thrive. Hip hop has inspired me and many others like me to follow our passions. Do you think following your passion means selling drugs? Hardly, hip hop has given hindsight to the masses showing them that selling drugs will eventually lead you down the wrong path. Hip hop teaches its listeners to be “street smart” and to pursue their dreams, something you dumb parents should have been doing.

If you don’t know about the Pimp C/Jeezy situation, let me quickly break it down for you. In Ozone magazine, which is some hip hop publication that spotlights the South, Pimp C made some disparaging comments about Atlanta and rappers lying about prices on a key of cocaine. Pimp C said,

You bitch ass niggas talking $17,500 and all these funny-ass dope numbers, how you gon’ sell it for $17,500 if you ain’t get it from me for $10k, bitch?

Mr. 17.5 is Young Jeezy’s nickname and Pimp C’s whole rant was against rappers from Atlanta where Jeezy is from, so the streets thought Pimp C was talking about Jeezy. Then Pimp C was asked by XXL magazine to clarify and Pimp C said,

First of all, Jeezy is a cold muthafucka with a microphone who, in my opinion, gotta have something in him that’s street or somebody street around him that’s instillin’ something in him. Now that I gave him his compliment, let me go on. Don’t single out Jeezy, because he ain’t the only one that’s kickin’ numbers that don’t match.

So you say Jeezy ain’t saying the right prices, but then say that Jeezy is your brother and that you would not go against your brother in front of the media, Pimp C,

But Young Jeezy is my brother. I done made records with the nigga. I’m not gonna side with the media against my brother.

But this is exactly what you did by talking about cocaine prices in two international magazines and specifically called out 17.5. Are you crazy? What did your whole rant accomplish? If you want rappers to change, make an album that will change the music. Your being a really old ass bitter dude, you ain’t even a pimp dog, you got a wife and kids. If you really was about positive change you would have dropped the “Pimp” nonsense. Think before you speak.

Jeezy had this to say about the situation in a recent interview with Allhiphop.com,

If he ain’t referring to me he ain’t referring to me but first of all I’m one hundred, I’m a real street ni**a and I ain’t gotta stress that. And nor will I get myself or anybody in my circle indicted to prove nothing to no ni**a, but at the end of the day that what it is and that’s what I’m standing on. He been gone six years, he don’t know what’s been going on in these streets. And to be honest with you, nobody ain’t got to go shop over that way anyway. Come on man, this real man, this the world. You can go to the West Coast, you can go wherever you need to go to do what you got to do, ain’t just one store. [laughing]

I don’t know what that’s about but I’m still standing on it. It’s 17.5, ni**a got a problem with it, then let’s get it.

I love how Jeezy handled this. There’s no sense in talking about prices and who did what, your all past those situations now and are entertainers, just get your money and get out.

PS. I’m still glad Pimp C aired some things out, but he should have stopped with the brick talk. A few years ago in NY they rocked these silly shirts for a reason.

Check out this deal for 500 free songs from Itunes (only for U.S residents). It’s good to stock up on some hard to find music, not to mention legal downloads that support the artist. Plus, Itunes makes it easier to find the damn song anyway.